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Burden Of Peace (75 min) Guatemala/Netherlands |
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Director: Joey Boink
Producer: Bart Voorsluis, Annemiek Munneke
Description:
Burden of Peace follows Guatemala’s first female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz. Claudia starts a frontal attack against corruption and organized crime. She arrests former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide. Her determination encounters strong resistance from powerful elites. Will she be able to win this battle? Claudia gave the film crew unlimited access from the beginning until the end of her term. It resulted in an intimate glimpse into the life of a woman who wants to change her country and therefore brings immense sacrifices both professionally and in her personal life.
Biography:
Joey Boink is a cum laude political sciences graduate and filmmaker. In 2004 he co-founded Framewerk, an audiovisual production company based in Amsterdam. Poldox, a documentary course he initiated at the University of Amsterdam, won the Eye Institute Film Education Award in 2011. In 2012 he participated at the Good Pitch and in 2014 he was selected for the Berlinale Talents program and Edit Studio.
Contact Information:
e: info@framewerk.nl
w: www.burdenofpeace.com
